New Zealand: Pike River mine disaster families demand continued underground investigation
Families of most of the 29 men who died following a series of explosions at the Pike River Coal mine in November 2010 are continuing to demand a thorough underground investigation of the disaster, in opposition to the Labour Party-Greens government’s attempt to shut it down.
After more than a decade, no one has been held responsible for the disaster, despite a royal commission in 2012 finding overwhelming evidence of unsafe and illegal practices by the company, which put production and profit ahead of workers’ safety. The police, state regulators, the courts and successive governments have shielded those responsible from accountability.
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Pike River Mine Disaster Families Oppose Government Plan To End Underground Investigation
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